ACTIVITY REPORT 2013–2014 L V Prasad Eye Institute Copyright © 2014 All rights reserved EDITORS: Dr Sreedevi Yadavalli, Aravind Chandarlapati DESIGN: Kartheek Koyinni, Y Yedukondalu ASSISTANCE: V Srinivasa Raju, G Rekha Sruthi, N Jayalaxmi and Lakshmi Sakuntala PHOTOGRAPHY: SBN Chary and Sandeep Roy; LVPEI Archives; Grateful thanks to Vicky Roy DONOR RELATIONS: Sam J Balasundaram PRINTERS: TOTEM Advertising & PR Pvt. Ltd. Department of Communications Level 4 L V Prasad Eye Institute Kallam Anji Reddy Campus L V Prasad Marg, Banjara Hills Hyderabad - 500034, India Ph: +91 40 30612445, +91 40 30612446 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Contents The LVPEI Network 02 The Year at a Glance 04 Our Team 06 Boards of Management 08 Foreword 09 Awards and Honours 10 Breaking New Ground 13 Network News 16 Campus News 22 Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad Bhubaneswar Campus GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Visakhapatnam Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus, Vijayawada Patient Care Services 44 Vision Rehabilitation 50 Eye Banking 58 Product Development 62 Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye care 64 Academy of Eye Care Education 78 Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre 93 Alumni News 121 Our Support 122 Abbreviations Used KAR - Kallam Anji Reddy Campus RIEB - Ramayamma International Eye Bank GMRV - GMR Varalakshmi Campus GPR ICARE - Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International KVC - Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye care THE LVPEI NETWORK Centre of Excellence Centre of Excellence 50 million population Tertiary Centres 5 million population Secondary Care Service Centres 500,000 - 1 million population Primary Care Service Centres 50,000 population Vision Health Guardians 5000 population Kallam Anji Reddy Campus Hyderabad Tertiary Care Centres Patia, Bhubaneswar GMR Varalakshmi Campus Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus Odisha Visakhapatnam Vijayawada Secondary Care Service Centres Bhosle Gopal Rao Seshanna Chennawar Kuchukulla Venkata Lakshmi Sudhakar & Sreekanth Patel Eye Centre Eye Centre Ramachandra Reddy Eye Centre Ravi Eye Centre Mudhole Adilabad Eye Centre Karamchedu Markapuram Prakasam Adilabad Thoodukurthy Prakasam Mahbubnagar Bhainsa Utnoor Wanaparthy Parchuru Tripuranthakam Kubeer Boath Achampet Panguluru Yerragondapalem Nandipet Jainath Nagarkurnool Pedanandipadu Dornala Navipet Bela Kothakota Yeddanapudi Cumbum Narsapur Narnoor Kollapur Marturu Bestavaripeta Lokeshwaram Jainoor Ghanapuram Ballikuruva Giddalur Tannur Jannaram Bijnapally Epurupalem Podili Medarpet Telkapally Chinnaganjam Darsi Talamadugu Kalwakurthy Naguluppalapadu Kurichedu Gudihathnoor Lingala Vetapalem Chimakurthi Echoda Amangal Indervelly Sompeta, Srikakulam Dist. City Centres at Hyderabad Mandasa Pydibhimavaram Rajahmundry Santhabommali Tekkali Ravulapalem Visakhapatnam Vijayawada Maliyaputti (As of 31 March 2014) Bhubaneswar Adilabad ODISHA Srikakulam Vizianagaram Karimnagar Nizamabad ANDHRA PRADESH Warangal Visakhapatnam Medak East Visakhapatnam Rangareddy Godavari Hyderabad Khammam West Nalgonda Godavari Krishna Guntur Mahbubnagar Vijayawada Kurnool Prakasam 1 Centre of Excellence Bellary 3 Tertiary Care Centres Anantapur 11 Secondary Care Service Centres Nellore Kadapa 9 Partner Centres KARNATAKA 103 Primary Care Service Centres Chittoor India Andhra Pradesh Sudhakar & Siloam Eye Centre Swarna Bharat Nava Bharat Dr Kommareddy Y Mahabaleshwarappa Sreekanth Ravi Madanapalle Eye Centre Eye Centre Raja Ram Mohan Rao Memorial Eye Centre Eye Centre Chittoor Venkatachalam Paloncha Eye Centre Bellary Kandukuru Nellore Khammam Gudavalli Karnataka Prakasam Guntur Tangutur Nimmanapalle Yellandu Bhattiprolu Kondapi B Kothakota Kallur Amruthaluru Lingasamudram Manuguru Chandrasekharapuram Ashwapuram Singarayakonda Dammapet Pamuru Tekulapally Ulavapadu Cherla Medarmet Chandragonda Santhanuthalapadu Tallada Kothapatnam Urban Visakhapatnam Vijayawada Ramnagar Shrungavarapukota K Kotapadu Kothavalasa Kapileshwarapuram Lingala Kismathpur Chodavaram Yalamanchili Kasimkota Kovvali Buttayagudem Ramakrishna Revidi Kailasapatnam Araku Pedapadu Agiripally Math Gajapathinagaram Govindapuram Vutukuru Vissannapeta Mylavaram Movva The Year at a Glance The LVPEI pyramid of service delivery touches all levels of society, from remote rural villages to busy urban centres. From primary eye care to advanced tertiary (quaternary). This year, we reached a total of 1,506,114 people including 147,916 children through these various levels of care. Of these, 0.82 million (818,568) received eye care services entirely free of cost as part of our community programs, outpatient and surgical services at various levels. PATIENT CARE Service Delivery: Community Eye Health Programs Entirely free of cost Population covered by door-to-door surveys 590,534 (613 villages surveyed) Population screened 70,361 (731 community programs) Schools & Anganwadis (creches) covered 589 Population reached 590,534 Children screened 66,501 Total reached 657,035 Outpatient visits Entirely Surgeries Entirely Free of cost Free of cost PRIMARY EYE CARE 103 Vision Centres 143,007 100% ------ ------ SECONDARY EYE CARE 4 11 Service Centres 138,917 43.3% 18,900 68.2% TERTIARY EYE CARE Bhubaneswar 105,234 24.1% 10,675 38.3% Visakhapatnam 79,258 32.6% 10,895 43.7% Vijayawada 44,045 27.4% 5,111 42.5% ADVANCED TERTIARY (QUATERNARY) CARE Hyderabad 250,509 27.4% 42,528 43.8% Total 760,970 44.0% 88,109 48.3% Includes 81,415 children Free of cost services are provided irrespective of the complexity of care. These numbers do not include data from our partner centres. Partner Secondary Centres 1,90,089 53% 25,127 66% Outpatient visits Surgical procedures 200,000 30,000 180,000 160,000 25,000 140,000 20,000 120,000 100,000 15,000 80,000 10,000 60,000 Paying Paying 40,000 Non-Paying 5,000 Non-Paying 20,000 0 0 The Year at a Glance The Network Grows (As of 31 March 2014) In operation Partnerships In process Centre of Excellence 1 -- -- Tertiary Centres 3 6 -- Service Centres 11 18 4 Vision Centres 103 -- 23 Capacity building collaborations Technical consultancy 9 -- 9 in specific areas REHABILITATION Providing a better quality of life Sight enhancement client visits (low vision) 7,742 Vision rehabilitation client visits 14,029 Community based rehabilitation 605 EYE BANKING 5 Facilitating the gift of sight Hyderabad Bhubaneswar* Visakhapatnam* Total Corneas harvested 4,652 410 827 5,889 *Community Eye Bank EDUCATION Enhancing skills and building human resources Ophthalmologists 174 Optometrists 54 Other eye care professionals 348 Vision technicians 39 Participants in CME and other programs 1,290 Ophthalmic nursing trainees 33 Community eye health professionals 188 Others 34 In addition, many more attended our CME programs through live webcasts. RESEARCH Pushing the frontiers Presentations International 226 National 304 Publications 243 Awards and Honours 56 Our Team Gullapalli N Rao D Balasubramanian Savitri Sharma Venkatesh M Reddy Sreedevi Yadavalli Chair Director, Prof Brien Holden Director, Laboratories Chairman’s Office Communications Member, Executive Eye Research Centre Rohit Khanna Staff Communications M Shobha Committee Member, Executive Director, Gullapalli Pratibha New Projects Audio Visual Committee Monitoring Taraprasad Das Rao International Centre for Elena D Roopchandra Vice Chair Prashant Garg Advancement of Rural Eye K V Subba Rao Research Member, Executive Director, Academy for Care (GPR ICARE) Finance & Accounts Committee Eye Care Education Chaitanya Nelluri Subhabrata Chakrabarti Vamshi Krishna NK Mark Nathaniel Thadikonda G Chandra Sekhar Dr G Chandra Sekhar Prof Brien Holden Human Resources Chair of Education & Vijayamma Nannepaga Vice Chair Eye Research Centre Ghanshyam Singh Centre for Eye Care Education Director, Kallam Anji Reddy Member, Executive Committee Shrikant R Bharadwaj Opticals − Technology Md Hidayath Ali Campus, Hyderabad Optometry & Training Dr Kallam Anji Reddy Virender S Sangwan Stores Chair of Ophthalmology Director - SRUJANA Vijaya K Gothwal Nagavardhan Reddy Anjaneyulu B Member, Executive Centre for Innovation, Meera & L B Deshpande Opticals − Operations Purchase Committee Centre for Regenerative Centre for Sight Sam Balasundaram Ophthalmology and Enhancement T Shive Shankar Usha Gopinathan Fund Raising & Security Executive Director Dr Paul Dubord Beula Christy Donor Relations Member, Executive Chair of Cornea Dr PRK Prasad Centre for Member, Executive K Annapurna Devi Committee Rehabilitation of Blind & Technology Committee Visually Impaired Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad G Chandra Sekhar Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery & J Ganesh Babu M Madhava Reddy P Shailaja Director and Dr Kallam Anji Aesthetics Kalmuri Shankar Sana Quadri T Shyamsunder Reddy Chair of Ophthalmology Milind N Naik Raghava Chary Administration M Srikanth Subhadra Jalali Mohammad Javed Ali Ravi Kumar K Durga Dhanraj D Srikanth Clinical Services, all Hyderabad Gautam Dendukuri Shashikant Chaudhary Jachin D Williams campuses (Kallam Anji Reddy Swathi Kaliki Unnisa Begum Vision Rehabilitation Charanya Ramachandran campus, Banjara Hills Extension, Vijay Anand P Reddy Yugandher Reddy Centres L Srinivasa Varadharajan M Yashwant Goud Seema Banerjee Premnandhini Satgunam City Centre) Meera & L B Deshpande Centre Winston D Prakash Jasti V Ramanamma Children’s Sita Rama Anjaneyulu Chandra Sekhar for Sight Enhancement Snigdha Director’s Office Ocular Prosthesis Eye Care Centre Vijaya K Gothwal Srinivas Allam Ramesh Kekunnaya Deepak K Bagga Administration Clinical Services